Kirjahaku

Twice each year for the nearly thirty years now Tim Sandlin has emerged for his shell to compose stories of the real Wyoming for the Jackson Hole Magazine. Tim and his cast from his strange yet sometimes lovable extended fantasy family argue, pontificate, love, and occasionally snark on the issues facing our beautiful valley. They love Jackson Hole as only a true family can love - quick to condemn, quick to forgive. "As tight and funny as anyone doing this comedy-novel thing." Christopher Moore author of Lamb and Fool "Sandlin can see that there is a kind of gruesome comedy in what happens to us, but the humor is never mean, and he loves his people too much not to understand that their grief and frustration and nostalgia are real." Nick Hornby author of High Fidelity and Juliet, Naked "Funny, shocking, downright revolting, and occasionally sad, Sandlin is a compelling storyteller." The Los Angeles Times Book Review "I recommend Tim Sandlin to the world." Drew Barrymore

Set in the very near future, Honey Don't features a hit list that runs the gamut: from a goatish president dying in flagrante, to an aging Don appalled by modern manners; from a certifiably stupid bagmen fleeing both the Secret Service and the mob with $656,000 of dirty money in a locked attach case and the presidents head in a carry -all, to a coke-snorting blow-dried VP who has suddenly caught the brass ring. Circling them are conniving White House staffers, corrupt politicos, sleazy journalists, and rancid pro football coaches: in short, the usual D.C. three-ring circus. And in the center ring is the eponymous Honey, one of those Texas women cursed with a given name that condemns her to a lifetime of cheerleading. But this Daddy's girl is a free spirit in full rebellion, and her take on life - offbeat but on target - is the heart and soul of this antic tale. Honey Don't is a full frontal assault on the inanities of our age. Often outrageous, sometimes shocking, always wickedly funny, it is, in the end, utterly and slyly subversive. It is also Tim Sandlin at his most maverick best.

So it's with no particular purpose that Kelly positions himself on his porch across the street from an Episcopal church in Jackson, Wyoming, to witness a singular sight: a dark-haired bride in full regalia punting a football over the rectory before turning resolutely to walk down the aisle. It's love at first sight for Kelly, and he proceeds to do absolutely anything and everything to get his girl ...